In the city where life is animated with colorsContaminated with aggravated brothers, who knows where the love is?Growing up swinging, through my upbringingMy limits is the sky from the all eye seeingOf so-called realities filled with technicalitiesI watch my steps, stay on my p's and check my casualtiesNot to get played, equipped with all the tricks of the tradeI even learned from the mistakes that the next man madeI know to choose and pick the people I grow up aroundI know to grow and get to know the town up and downBut there's no instructions, so many directionsA lot of crooks look to get hooked with connectionsSome thought they knew all adolescence could teachThey graduated from school but fail life in the streetsYour pops taught you to strive and stay a live, no dittyIt's easy to die when you're living for the city

That's how I'm living (x3)Yeah that's how I'm livingThat's how I'm living (x3)Yep that's how I'm living

I grow according to my environmental habitatI hang where everything seem to happen atI seen it all, and I've been doing that since I was smallCatch a flashback y'all, if I can recallThe days on the corner we watched the world go byOr nights that wasn't right like when a good friend diesI quest for the best for prepare for the worstNever scared but I cared if I'm blessed or I'm cursedYes I fear no man but AllahI'm Gomar Oras DubarWhich is God so It's hard to see RaI do what I gotta do, with or without a clueRun through any obstacle including youCause I ain't got to bust you, cause I got the muscleA push any clown that tries to slow down my hustleI gotta get by, but there's no time for pityIt's easy to die when you're living for the city

That's how I'm living (x3)Yeah that's how I'm livingThat's how I'm living (x3)Yep that's how I'm living

That's how I'm living (x3)Yep that's how I'm livingThat's how I'm living (x3)Yeah that's how I'm living

I'm in a zone everywhere I seem to roam is homeA rolling stone, I hold my own just like a microphoneI stay in tune, travel in harmony and set the toneBeing young but I'm grown and well-knownTry to take me out New York but you can't take New York out of meCause that's the only way that I know how to beMy neighbors is jealous they label us drug sellersWe may be hood dwellers, we're just a bunch of goodfellasCause we run wild with a passion, my style and my fashionIs getting, kid, I'm making cash and crashingParties that everybody's talking about, we turn it outI'm just a native New Yorker with cloutI know my way around any borough and any townI make a lot of ground and I'm hard to be foundI get down to the nitty gritty, wake up with something prettyIt gets me through another day living for the city

That's how I'm living (x3)Yeah that's how I'm livingThat's how I'm living (x3)Yep that's how I'm living

That's how I'm living (x3)Yep that's how I'm livingThat's how I'm living (x3)Yeah that's how I'm living